AN IMPORTANT BOOK
Lectures on the American Civil War
Delivered Before the University of Oxford
By JAMES FORD RHODES, Ll. D., D. Litt.
Author of “The History of the United States From the Compromise of 1850 to
the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877,”
“Historical Essays,” etc.
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These lectures, delivered before the University of Oxford in May, 1912, inaugurated a course on the History and Institutions of the United States. While written for an English audience, they are an attempt to relate concisely the antecedents and the salient events of our Civil War. Mr. Rhodes’s deep conviction that the war was due to slavery is cogently set forth; his story of the decade before 1861 shows the resistless march of events toward the bloody consummation. The events of the war itself are grouped about Lincoln, Lee, and Grant, three heroes of undying interest; the assassination of Lincoln in his hour of success is the culmination of the tragedy.
“The fairness and clearness with which these lectures are written, and the critical judgment which has reduced the number of details and made a unity of the war, give a merit to the book that places it in the front ranks of works on the Civil War.”—Boston Evening Transcript.
“The best of many recent books relating to the Civil War.”—Providence Journal.
“Bound to take an important place.”—Boston Globe.
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